Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe place to raise their families in Austin.

A Montana judge on Wednesday struck down a state law defining sex in binary terms, finding that the law violated the Montana Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and privacy. Judge Leslie ...

An MTSU student from Mt. Juliet joined fellow classmates in research at one of Nashville’s first post-Civil War Black ...

The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu extremists killed an estimated one million minority ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in ...

Frederick Douglass, a native son of Talbot County and a leading African American abolitionist, writer, orator, and newspaper ...

While many are familiar with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, other civil rights leaders, such as East Tennessean Avon Rollins Sr., also ...